What can you do with a degree in Political Science? Give it back!
The title of this article is NOT my view, nor is it clickbait. It’s the punchline to an anecdote I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
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Emperor of the Eight Islands, a review
Lian Hern writes a good tale here, but not a great one. She sets it in a fictional medieval Japan,
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The Martian is NOT a true story (but it could have been)
So the buzz this morning is that a number of people are leaving theatres after seeing The Martian, believing that
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No longer the keeper of the flame? (Updated)
I’ve had one of those realizations, one of those realizations(updated below). I’ve parted ways with pop culture in all its
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Rogue One – The Ending That Wasn’t Meant To Be
SPOILER & SPECULATION Heavy – Read at your own risk. As most people know by now, the third act of
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A Thought: How to Pre-emptively Stop Mass Murders
Since the most common-sense idea — “no guns” — won’t work in America, here?s a simple idea, and not even
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Ethics: The Right to Be Forgotten vs Censorship
Recently France?s privacy commission ruled that the European Union?s ?Right to Be Forgotten? law applies to Google worldwide, not just
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Creator Intent versus Reader Ownership
Who owns the meaning of a story? There?s an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut that may be apocryphal. It goes like
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A Review of The Wind-up Girl
Science Fiction set in non-Western cultures can be very interesting, and lately I?ve been lucky to find two that are
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The Hubris of the Echo Chamber
Like many, I was not only surprised, but shocked by the recent US elections. Michael Moore warned us back in